Recertify piib/ishcd Ornithological Works, 789 



Dabbene on new Argentine Birds, 



[Description d'un nouveau genre et d'une nouvelle espece cle Pic pro- 

 venant du nord-ouest de la Republique Argentine. Par Roberto 

 Dabbene. An. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Buenos Aires, xxvii. 1915, pp. 75-81 . 



Una ave nueva para la Argentina. Par Roberto Dabbene. Bol. Soc. 

 Physis, i. 1914, pp. 435-436. 



Otres especies de aves niievas para la Argentina. Bol. Soc. Plij-sis, i. 

 1915, pp. 532-533.] 



For a rare Woodpecker^ described in 1888 by Cabanis from 

 the province of Cordoba under the name of Phlceotomus 

 schulzi, Senor Dabbene now proposes a new generic name, 

 Neophloeotomus. He also describes and figures, apparently 

 from the same province of the Argentine, a new species of 

 Neophloeotomus {N. shiptoni), differing from the type merely 

 in the presence of a white band along tlie shoulders. 



It does not appear that Sefior Dabbene ha.s had an oppor- 

 tunity of examining the type or other examples of Cabanis's 

 species, and we venture to suggest that it is unlilcelv that 

 two distinct species of so large and well- characterised a 

 form would inhabit the same locality. 



In the two other short notes Senor Dabbene adds to the 

 avifauna of the Argentine Manacus manacus gntturosns , 

 Harpiprion cayennensis, Dendrocygna discolor, and SporopJdla 

 pileata, all Brazilian species. 



Mathews on Australian Birds. 



[The Birds of Australia. By Gregory M. Mathews. Vol. iv. pt. 3, 

 pp. 193-334, pis. 224-233. Loudon (Witherby), 1915.] 



In this part the Pelecaniformes are continued with the 

 Darters, the Gannets, the Frigate-birds, the Tropic-birds, 

 and the Pelicans. The first and last of these give little 

 trouble, but with regard to the other three Families the 

 importance of the questions involved can hardly be over- 

 estimated. So great is it, indeed, that we hope Mr, 

 INIathews will at some future date re})rint his monographical 

 essays in a separate form, and include the Petrels and such 

 widely ranging birds ; for they might happen after a time 

 to be overlooked, if only published in a work supposed to 



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